. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 279 Records Early: Burchell 1811-1813 [1822/?: 20], near Prieska. Bleek & Lloyd 1873 [1911: 85], Katkop, N. Cape. Stow before 1880 [1905: 59], Koesberg, N. Cape. Recent: SAM-1552, 1911, Gordonia. Wit. Univ. 2441, no date, Gemsbok Park. Drury 1921 [1935: 94], Sandfontein. SAM-3679, 1921, Nharo, Sandfontein. SAM-4284, 1925, Kalahari. Dornan [1925, facing p. 48], Kalahari. Kling 1925, correspondence, east of Gochas. Fourie [1928: 102], Namibia. Hirschberg [1933: 128], O
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 279 Records Early: Burchell 1811-1813 [1822/?: 20], near Prieska. Bleek & Lloyd 1873 [1911: 85], Katkop, N. Cape. Stow before 1880 [1905: 59], Koesberg, N. Cape. Recent: SAM-1552, 1911, Gordonia. Wit. Univ. 2441, no date, Gemsbok Park. Drury 1921 [1935: 94], Sandfontein. SAM-3679, 1921, Nharo, Sandfontein. SAM-4284, 1925, Kalahari. Dornan [1925, facing p. 48], Kalahari. Kling 1925, correspondence, east of Gochas. Fourie [1928: 102], Namibia. Hirschberg [1933: 128], Oas, Rietfontein, Sudonibsaup. SAM-7551, 1936, N. E. Kalahari. Maccrone 1937: 252, pis 97, 98; near Auob and Nossop Rivers. Afr. Mus. 43/165, 1943, Gobabis. Marshall 1951-1961 [1976], Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Lee 1963-1965 [1965], Dobe, northern Namibia. SAM-9141, 1965, Nharo, Ghanzi. SAM-9333, 1966, Nharo, Ghanzi. Steyn 1968 [1971: 284-285], Ghanzi. SAM-9621, 1969, Nharo, Kalkfontein. Field survey: 1975, Tsumkwe. FISH-TRAPS Basketwork fish-traps were used by people who lived along the Orange River and the Fish River in Namibia and probably near other rivers and marshes. They are described by early travellers as neatly made funnel-shaped or pointed baskets, about 183 cm long and 45-61 cm at the greatest diameter. The warps of those seen by Barrow (1801) near the Orange River were alternately of 'reeds' and twigs of taaibos (Rhus sp.), light and dark respectively, and 'gave a pretty effect'. Other descriptions were that they were made of 'stick grass' (this often meant sedge) and that they resembled the eel-baskets of Europe. Fig. 5. Eel-pot, England, c. 1860. Photo: A. Heseltine, Shire Publications Album 92; copyright Institute of Agricultural History, University of Reading. (Fig. 5). No authors, however, describe the inner valve, which is visible in the eel-baskets, and is common in other African fish-traps (Fig. 6). According to Barrow (1801), they were used either individually by
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